surrender
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In ancient Greece, the city-state of Sparta forced the surrender of Athens by blocking its grain supplies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
A government agency that controlled our land lease demanded we surrender the property.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
What Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid is out to evoke is bone-deep submission: the kind of total capitulation and surrender that makes a person unrecognizable even to themselves.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
It reads more like terms of surrender rather than a basis for negotiation.
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026
Suffering from an attack of nausea, Elizebeth crept around the house alone—and then she heard the news that Japan was about to surrender.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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